• Hurricane Ian, drought conditions amplified 2022 U.S. weather extremes

    Hurricane Ian, drought conditions amplified 2022 U.S. weather extremes

    Jan 10, 2023 09:18 PM EDT

    ... Gleason. With a third straight year of a La Nina cooling the eastern Pacific, which tends to change weather patterns across the globe and moderate global warming, 2022 was only the 18th-warmest year in U.S. records, Gleason said. "It was a warm year certainly above average for most ...

  • Influential people we said goodbye to in 2022

    Influential people we said goodbye to in 2022

    Dec 31, 2022 01:55 AM EDT

    ... most prolific scorer with Brazilian club Santos and the Brazil national team. Dec. 29. Vivienne Westwood, 81. The influential fashion designer who played a key role in the punk movement became an outspoken advocate of fighting global warming, warning of planetary doom if climate change was not controlled. Dec. 29.

  • Vivienne Westwood, influential punk fashion maverick, dies at 81

    Vivienne Westwood, influential punk fashion maverick, dies at 81

    Dec 29, 2022 09:46 PM EDT

    ... who was honored several times by Queen Elizabeth II. She dressed like a teenager even in her 60s and became an outspoken advocate of fighting global warming, warning of planetary doom if climate change was not controlled. Katz, a longtime correspondent for The Associated Press who died in 2020, was ...

  • Discovery of 2-million-year-old DNA in Greenland reveals new details about ancient life

    Discovery of 2-million-year-old DNA in Greenland reveals new details about ancient life

    Dec 22, 2022 11:20 PM EDT

    ... if you're bad at forecasting, it means you also have -- it's difficult to make a strategy how to mitigate, right, the consequences of global warming. On the other hand, I would say now we have a generic road map, right? We have a genetic -- it's the building ...

  • Donald Trump and Elon Musk: 2 disrupters facing a reckoning

    Donald Trump and Elon Musk: 2 disrupters facing a reckoning

    Dec 20, 2022 05:52 PM EDT

    ... corporate policy about how to manage them. Their politics don’t match — Musk’s right-wing and libertarian beliefs come with a devotion to controlling global warming, for example, and Trump’s don’t. Their personalities differ in some respects, too — Musk admits error and even apologizes on occasion; Trump ...

  • UN head says climate plans 'falling woefully short,' urges action to avoid catastrophe

    UN head says climate plans 'falling woefully short,' urges action to avoid catastrophe

    Dec 19, 2022 05:09 PM EDT

    ... far fall short of what's needed to avert catastrophe. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the Paris climate accord's goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) "is gasping for breath" as the gap between actual greenhouse gas emissions and the amount ...

  • G7 establishes global club to fight climate change

    G7 establishes global club to fight climate change

    Dec 12, 2022 10:38 PM EDT

    ... global climate targets," the chancellor said. The climate club aims to support the rapid and ambitious implementation of the Paris Agreement, which seeks to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius ((2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the German government. Monday was the seventh anniversary of accord's adoption ...

  • How William and Kate are honoring climate innovators

    How William and Kate are honoring climate innovators

    Dec 05, 2022 09:22 PM EDT

    ... of climate change. Queen Elizabeth and William’s father King Charles were among the earliest high-profile voices drawing attention to environmental issues, long before global warming reached this critical phase. Prince William and Catherine have made the environment, mental health and education the cornerstone of their Royal Foundation’s ...

  • How countries are trying to tackle the plastic pollution problem together

    How countries are trying to tackle the plastic pollution problem together

    Dec 04, 2022 10:35 PM EDT

    ... does need to be done, increased urgency and, and looking at the problem a lot like the way that the world has been looking at global warming and greenhouse gas emissions. But there's still more that's being done in a coordinated way now than a few years ago ...

  • NASA cancels plans for costly greenhouse gas monitoring satellite

    NASA cancels plans for costly greenhouse gas monitoring satellite

    Nov 30, 2022 05:48 PM EDT

    ... to have to do it a different way because we don't see this instrument coming together."Monitoring of greenhouse gases, the main cause of global warming, is important on many levels. It can help spot leaks, say of methane, or hold to account companies and countries that have pledged ...